Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using (Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, Act-on, Autopilot, etc.)

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De-duplication Lead Ranking Lead Management Work Management 40

DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

However, DealSignal stands out as the preferred choice for sales and marketing professionals seeking extensive data coverage, unmatched accuracy, precise targeting filters, and strong integration capabilities. Its rigorous verification process ensures reliable and up-to-date information, including human-verified phone numbers.

B2B Sales 52

B2B Sales Ideal Customer Profiles Generation B2B 52

Crimson Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

One of the results of an increasingly connected digital world is the spectacular rise of demand generation at the top of the sales funnel. In order to successfully scale in this new paradigm, high growth companies must think carefully about their business processes and the infrastructure needed to support them.

CMO 100

CMO Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Top of Funnel 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Ledger Bennett

MARCH 19, 2021

Any would-be revenue leader who isn’t tearing down demand era Sales and Marketing silos and building a unified Digital Revenue Team are fated to go the way of the dinosaur. This type of revenue attribution is critical for sales and marketing teams, especially for B2B businesses. Cortex is a revenue intelligence platform.

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Marketing Automation Services Aggregators Forecasting Paid Search Agency 59

markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

In February , Paul Teshima, SVP of Product Management at Eloqua, set the tone for the webinar year. He defined the tenets of the new world of marketing in Revenue Performance Management. Paul explains how here: The Future of Marketing: The Evolution from Demand Generation to Revenue Performance Management.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Varicent

MAY 31, 2018

A CX Consulting , on how Customer Success can get involved in the buyers journey and impact the sale before it happens. With businesses moving to subscription-based revenue models, there's a huge demand in the market to figure out how to retain customers, expand revenue, and do it in the most scalable, cost-efficient, and sustainable manner.

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Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

Televerde

APRIL 14, 2020

For 25 years, Televerde has employed more than 3,000 incarcerated women in Arizona and Indiana, with 94 percent advancing into professional career positions in sales, marketing and technology fields. Homestead Correctional Institution and Provide Career Pathways to Women. PRIDE Enterprises ). that is staffed entirely by incarcerated women.

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Lead Ranking Eloqua Marketo Training 97

Vidyard

AUGUST 7, 2015

Are you scoring leads to make sure you’re flipping only the best over to the Sales team? Or, give the on-demand webinar a listen for yourself!) But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn: companies that excel at lead nurturing have 9% more sales reps making quotas. Lead scoring is never completed.

Lead Ranking 53

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Video Marketing Eloqua 53

Content4Demand

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Oftentimes marketers and sales teams take bold lunges to attract customers, whether it be an email, an advertisement, or a cold call—and then we sit back, cross our fingers and hope that our messaging is timely and well-received. It’s a glimpse into the future of your audience’s sales cycle and enables earlier interactions with your audience.

Account Based Marketing 119

Account Based Marketing ABM Multi-Channel Trigger Marketing 119

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Joe Chernov comes to the Content Pros Podcast this week from InsightSquared, a sales performance analytics software product. Prior to working at InsightSquared, Joe served as VP of Marketing at several successful businesses, including Hubspot, Eloqua, and Kinvey. Working with sales reps for better use of enablement content.

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Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Marketing & Strategy ABM 102

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We loving sharing Sales Pipeline Radio with you (live every Thursday at 11:30 pst). We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. Most recently she spent 9 years at Eloqua in customer success and global market readiness roles.

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Top of Funnel Eloqua Peer-to-peer Budget Programs 48

PathFactory

MAY 29, 2022

A scoring methodology used to determine when a potential prospect is engaged enough to be considered a “marketing qualified lead” (MQL) so this can be passed along to sales for further follow up. Demand Gen team can specify the value of the threshold, ex. Using PathFactory Data in your Eloqua Lead Scoring Model.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads 40

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2012

Because as consumers are tuning out marketing messages at all stages of the buying process, conversion rates are starting to plummet. This is all at a time when marketing budgets are feeling the strain of sales’ expectations that marketing will produce more leads and better leads. Audit existing content.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Advertising Agencies Content Marketing Work Management 100

markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 120

SWZD

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This week, we spoke to Michell Liro , Vice President of Demand Generation at PTC. PTC (formerly known as Parametric Technology Corporation) was dominant in computer-aided design (CAD) modeling software in the late 1980s, 90s and 2000s, and product lifecycle management (PLM) software in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Work Management 48

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies 48

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

I hope you find this to be a valuable resource for your B2B Marketing efforts. Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place. BtoBmagazine – BtoB Online – The resource for # marketing strategists. (And I quickly found that no list is perfect.).

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Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. Step 1: Sales and Marketing Alignment and Documentation. How will marketing get feedback from sales?

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

KITCHENER, Ontario – November 2, 2017 – For the fourth year in a row, Vidyard , the new generation video platform for business, has partnered with Demand Metric, the marketing research and advisory firm, to publish The 2017 State of Video Marketing report. As businesses continue to create videos, budgets are following.

Video Marketing 75

Video Marketing Marketing Automation Services Research Account Based Marketing 75

Kapost

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Marketing automation platforms such as Marketo, Eloqua, and Hubspot had burst onto the scene. Lead scoring helped to prioritize and elevate active leads with firmographic fit to the sales team, which would go on to turn prospects into closed revenue. the market has realized that it is not enough to fill our sales pipelines.

Account Based Marketing 48

Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel ABM Content 48

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Act-On Software recently reported that 40% of marketers are dissatisfied with their campaign management program. Among B2B vendors, Eloqua is the poster child for this approach. This is by far the most popular strategy among vendors, presumably because it increases sales by placing the fewest demands on buyers.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Cintell

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

In fact, the #1 priority of B2B marketers in 2016 will be “understanding buyers,” according to a recent survey from the IT Sales and Marketing Association. Erika has over 15 years of B2B marketing, public relations and demand generation expertise. Customer-centricity is a competitive advantage! Buyer personas are: A big priority.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Buyer Personas Peer-to-peer Public Relations 100

SWZD

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Our guest this week was Alex Lin , Director of Marketing Automation and Demand Generation at CipherCloud. Alex said there has been a fundamental change where marketing shifts from a cost center, to a revenue center, and then even beyond that to enable the forecasting of demand and revenue as far as a year out or even further.

Marketing AI 54

Marketing AI Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 54

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Role of Video is Expanding from Marketing to Sales : 37 percent of sales teams are now using video throughout the sales cycle and 23 percent are now creating their own video content, both measures are up more than 50% from the previous year. As businesses continue to create videos, budgets are following.

Video Marketing 50

Video Marketing Marketing Automation Services Research Account Based Marketing 50

Ledger Bennett

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A chief revenue officer (CRO) is a corporate officer (executive) responsible for all revenue generation processes in an organization. Is the CRO friend or foe to marketing and sales? One of the biggest blockers of all being the well documented challenge of sales and marketing alignment. But there’s a conflict.

CMO 40

CMO Demand Generation Agencies Eloqua Paid Search Agency 40

markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a recent interview, Brian sat down with Steve Girshik of LeadSpace.com to talk a little shop about the fundamentals of lead generation, what’s new (and unchanged) in the world of the complex sale, and how empathy marketing is the way forward. Steve: So 10 years ago, you published Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My own answer boiled down to a perhaps-not-convincing “trust me, they’re really different”, although I’ve addressed the question in depth in the resources section of the Raab Guide Web site. I still suspect they will, driven by the need for ever-closer cooperation between marketing and sales teams in managing prospect relationships.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 14, 2012

Your content supports the sales process and effectively communicates the value of your solutions to prospects. Identifying where to focus your Stage Zero content efforts can be an unnatural process for marketers accustomed to focusing on the buying process. You are ready to take your content marketing to the next level.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Planning Eloqua Marketing Automation Services 100

Televerde

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Televerde is a sales and marketing solutions provider that specializes in inside sales and demand generation. The women are hired, compensated and skilled in the basics of sales and marketing, and certified in technologies such as Marketo, Salesforce and Eloqua. Empowering Women from the Inside Out.

Conversion 71

Conversion Eloqua Thought Leadership Work Management 71

markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Webcast 120

Webcast Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Generation Generation 120

Televerde

JUNE 28, 2021

With this new European-based engagement center, Televerde will expand its outbound and inbound sales and marketing solutions across Europe. HMP Styal is Televerde’s first European engagement center that is staffed entirely by female prisoners and its ninth prison-run center globally.

Ad brokers 52

Ad brokers Lead Ranking Work Management Advertising Agencies 52

Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Database marketing is a methodical approach to the gathering and processing of consumer data that is stored and maintained in a company’s database. Databases can come from private internal resources, which may contain contact information on existing leads and customers. What is Database Marketing? How Does it Work With PPC?

Database Marketing 45

Database Marketing PPC Work Management Marketing Management 45

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 23, 2011

Indeed, you could sniff that Infusionsoft is only now adding campaigns, in the sense of a container to link separate process flows. In fact, the company’s research has found that nearly half its clients do almost no email, using the system instead primarily for sales automation and service.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing & Strategy 120

Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. Albacross asked experts to share their Top 3 Sales Tools for the coming year. No need to worry, though.

Marketing Automation Services 122

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Budget Programs Work Management 122

Sales Engine

DECEMBER 6, 2016

So they task marketing leadership with building a demand generation engine and run into myriad problems. 2 The marketing skill set you currently employ is inadequate for demand generation In general, resources are the biggest challenge to running a demand generation program that is actually going to provide actionable sales intelligence. .

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Paid Search Agency Demand 168